If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking b...
Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I can go on the road - and I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued int he presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the s...
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses...
Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning